UB Awarded 14 New U.S. Patents in 2011

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The University at Buffalo was issued 14 new U.S. patents in 2011, covering technologies ranging from an augmentative communications device for the speech-impaired to a dye for purging blood pathogens and for photodynamic therapy.

The patents and their inventors, who will be celebrated March 1 at UB's Inventors and Entrepreneurs Reception, include:

-- Method and System for Synchronous Rectification, Patent No. 7,869,972

UB Inventors: Frederick Sachs and Stephen Besch, both of the Department of Physiology and Biophysics

-- Method for Treating Blood Coagulation Disorders, Patent No. 7,875,288; and Compositions of Less Immunogenic and Long-Circulating Protein-Lipid Complexes, Patent No. 7,875,289

UB Inventors: Sathy V. Balu-Iyer and Robert Straubinger, both of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Collaborators: Aaron Peng and Razvan Miclea, both formerly of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences

-- Method of Using G-Matrix Fourier Transformation Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (GFT NMR) Spectroscopy for Rapid Chemical Shift Assignment and Secondary Structure Determination of Proteins, Patent No. 7,880,468

UB Inventor: Thomas A. Szyperski, the Department of Chemistry

Collaborators: Seho Kim and Hanudatta Atreya, both formerly of the Department of Chemistry

-- Sensor and Method of Sensing Having an Energy Source and Detector on the Same Side of a Sensor Substance, Patent No. 7,897,108

UB Inventors: Albert H. Titus and Alexander N. Cartwright, both of the Department of Electrical Engineering; and Frank V. Bright, the Department of Chemistry

-- Chalcogenoxanthylium Dyes for Purging Blood Pathogens and for Photodynamic Therapy, Patent No. 7,906,500

UB Inventor: Michael R. Detty, the Department of Chemistry

Collaborator: David J. Donnelly formerly of the Department of Chemistry

-- G-Matrix Fourier Transformation (GFT) Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Experiments for Resonance Assignment and Structure Determination of Organic Molecules, Patent No. 7,920,972

UB Inventor: Thomas Szyperski, the Department of Chemistry

Collaborator: Hanudatta S. Atreya, formerly of the Department of Chemistry

-- Azepans and Methods for Making and Using Same, Patent No. 7,968,708

UB Inventor: David G. Hangauer, the Department of Chemistry

Collaborators: Taher Hegab, formerly of the Department of Chemistry; Fengzhi Li and Xiang Ling, both of Roswell Park Cancer Institute

-- High Density Coupling of Quantum Dots to Carbon Nanotube Surface for Efficient Photodetection, Patent No. 8,003,979

UB Inventor: Paras N. Prasad, the Department of Chemistry

Collaborators: Namchul Cho, Kaushik Roy Choudhury, Yudhisthira Sahoo and Kwang Sup Lee, all formerly of the Department of Chemistry

-- Method for Detecting Analytes Using Surface Plasmon Resonance, Patent No. 8,004,676

UB Inventors: Paras N. Prasad and Wing Cheung Law, both of the Department of Chemistry

Collaborators: Przemyslaw Markowicz, formerly of the Department of Chemistry; Andrei Kabashin and Sergiy Patskovsky, both non-UB Inventors

-- Secure Fingerprint Matching by Hashing Localized Information, Patent No. 8,005,277

UB Inventor: Sergey Tulyakov and Venu Govindaraju, both of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Collaborators: Faisal Farooq and Sharat Chikkerur, both formerly of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering

-- Production of Photoluminescent Silicon Nanoparticles Having Surfaces that are Essentially Free of Residual Oxygen, Patent No. 8,029,698

UB Inventors: Eli Ruckenstein and Mark Swihart, both of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Collaborator: Fengjun Hua, formerly of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering

-- Augmentative Communications Device for the Speech Impaired Using Commercial-Grade Technology, Patent No. 8,065,154

UB Inventors: Kris Schindler and Michael Buckley, both of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering

-- Method for Using Gold Nanorods-siRNA Complexes, Patent No. 8,035,016

UB Inventors: Earl J. Bergey, Paras N. Prasad and Ken-Tye Yong, all of the Department of Chemistry; Supriya Mahajan and Stanley A. Schwartz, both of the Department of Medicine

Collaborators: Adela Bonoiu and Indrajit Roy, both formerly of the Department of Chemistry